Fertility in the Workplace Miniseries: Why Do We Need to Acknowledge the Issue?

In the ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Natalie Sutherland and Somaya Ouazzani, we will delve into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents.Natalie Sutherland is a Partner at Burgess Mee, a Family Law Firm and their first fertility officer. Natalie has experience handling surrogacy matters, based in the UK and internationally. Somaya Ouazzani is the CEO and Founder of Mimoza Fleur, a boutique executive search firm, in the legal sector. Somaya was previously a family and divorce lawyer, at Kingsley Napley, and Russell-Cooke LLP. In the first minisode of the series, Rob, Natalie and Somaya discuss the following: Why it is  important for us all to acknowledge the issue in the first place and raise awareness on fertility in the workplace;How lawyers can offer support to clients going through these issues;The culture of shaming women for having children early on;And how women experience feelings of shame and guilt for starting families too late.For further details, check out the episode show notes on Legallyspeakingpodcast.com. Support the show